Causes of the Civil War

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States in the South believed: They should have more representatives in Congress, They were better, They should have the right to decide their own laws, They were French

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They should have the right to decide their own laws

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Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected?

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Southern States

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Why did the Southern states want to leave the Union?

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They knew many Republicans were against Slavery

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The first state to secede from the Union was

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South Carolina

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What allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states?

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Fugitive Slave Act

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an enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state

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Dred Scott

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Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

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Fugitive Slave Act

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The result of the Dred Scott decision was that

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slaves are property, not citizens

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Which act of Congress added a slave and free state and outlawed slavery in new states North of 36"30' in the Louisiana Territory?

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Missouri Compromise

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A consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:

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violence between pro-slavery and abolitionist groups